Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Production was up 20% in the last two months; Ruhr iron & steel set postwar records. In Frankfurt, a mechanic named Johann Schaeffer broke his three-year habit of saying "schreck-lich" (frightful) when anyone asked him how things were going. Last week Johann was saying: "Today, yes, we can count ourselves fortunate...
...walked victorious off the field one night, because everybody on both sides had forgotten an old baseball rule. In the ninth inning, with two out and the tying Pittsburgh Pirate runs on base, Brooklyn's Manager Burt Shotton put in a relief pitcher, then yanked him with the count only three-and-one. At the time, nobody objected. But in the clubhouse after the game, an ex-sportwriter advised Pittsburgh's Manager Billy Meyer to protest: the Dodgers had violated Rule 17 (a relief pitcher must handle at least one batter). Confessed Manager Meyer: "I pulled a real...
Steady Flying. Of course, Operation Vittles does not have to count its cost ($260,000 daily), as money-losing U.S. commercial airlines do. Still, it may help U.S. commercial operators solve some problems...
...Braves in the opener, 8-7, and seized first place amid pandemonium in the bleachers. A couple of hours later, amid more pandemonium, the Braves took it back, 2-1, and Brooklyn's bright blue banner was hauled down. One big reason why it was too soon to count the faltering Braves out: Shortstop Alvin Dark, whose fat .331 batting average, made him a likely Rookie-of-the-Year...
...days, the headlines had chanted that the count was 3 & 2. Yet on the night when death finally came to Babe Ruth, New Yorkers found the news hard to believe. Newspaper switchboards lit up within minutes after the radio bulletin, and were jammed for hours. At Memorial Hospital five extra operators were put on, to repeat over & over that Ruth had died...